From the retail supersession, Sucherita Mulpuru shared the Forrester mobile forecast,$35B in mobile sales, $977B mobile influenced sales. So for every dollar purchased on a mobile device, another $28 are influenced.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. announced Monday that it sold 3 trillion yuan ($463 billion) of goods through its online shopping websites in the past year ending in March, a milestone for the company. When their fiscal year ends on March 31, they likely will surpass Walmart as the largest retailer in the worldMacys thinks amazon can’t compete

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

Dropbox announced that they are (mostly) moving off of AWS and developing their own storage.

Walmart has released OneOps, their platform for deploying cloud based infrastructure apps, such as Walmarts own e-commerce platform. Apps can be agnostically deployed across Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Rackspace, and OpenStack.

Target is running ads for engineers for a mysterious new project, codenamed "Goldfish". The job listings specify "You must have a deep understanding of the fundamentals of retail marketplaces, social commerce and influencer networks," which caused Jason & Scot to speculate about what the project might be.

Episode 18 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday, March 15th, 2016.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

“What’s more, Penney has noticed that when it closes a store, online sales in the surrounding area also fall because awareness of the J.C. Penney brand falters”

“Ellison last month told investors that shoppers coming in to pick up an online order typically end up spending another 35% on that trip”

Was Ron Johnson right? Scot thinks he didn't have enough time, but that his experiential strategy was right on. Jason thinks trying to transition from promotional pricing to everyday low prices too quickly was a big mistake.

Dicks is finally transitioning from their outsourced e-commerce site to their own site. They previously outsourced it to GSI (now E-Bay Enterprises) with a very long contract. Jason mentioned that most GSI clients are finally bringing their web experiences in house.

There is a funny easter egg in the last GSI sites. They all have a few "Test SKUs" which are actually for sale on the site, such as the “Norm M TEST PID - DO NOT TOUCH EVER!!!” T-Shirt. You can do a google search, and see all the sites that have this particular test product.

Costco Earnings

What's keeping Costco CFO Richard Galanti up at night:

"Everybody in the world never wanting to leave their house and only typing stuff to order and get it at the front door”

He went on to say:

"We want to do everything possible to get them in the store and not just come and pick something up," Galanti told analysts, explaining why he didn't expect to roll out in-store pickup anytime soon. About e-commerce is general, he said, "some out there would argue it's about time. But we're getting to it."

Jason and Scot agree that Costco is way behind on omni-channel e-commerce and it's likely to catch up with them.

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

MercadoLibre:Gross Merchandise Volume rose 86% in local currencies, mainly driven by Argentina and Brazil. Marketplace revenues grew 63% and non-Marketplace 79%. Total revenues accelerated to 69%, all in local currencies.Total payment transactions grew 79% to 25.4 million, while Total payment volume grew close to 100% in local currencies, reaching $1.5 billion. MecardoEnvios (MercardoLibre's payment platform) penetration close to 70% in Brazil, and 50% considering only the countries where the shipping solution is available. 2016 forecast - 23% GMV growth, caused by headwinds in BR - transition to next blurb.

Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.